The Haraz Mountains

For an article titled 'Sand Storm.' The Haraz Mountains rise abruptly off the steamy Red Sea coasl and, for centuries, have acted as a cultural fortress protecting the Yemeni heartland from interfering foreigners. Today the suspicion of outsiders is largely a thing of the past, but what hasn't changed is the grandeur of the mountains and the beauty of their tapestry of terraced fields and fortified villages, all huddled together on the most unlikely crags.